It’s probably for the best that God showed up in the world as verbum infans, otherwise the first Word might very well have been, “what the fuck?”

Even if a tree could worship we wouldn’t understand it. - Wittgenstein, probably.

If trees are sentient, they must have religion. What do you think that’s like?

John 10:10 is the kernel of an anti-AI theology.

“We are killed everywhere, every day, without any reason,” said Qaddura Fares, a former minister for detainees with the Palestinian Authority, saying that the death penalty is simply another tool for Israel to kill “another 40 or 50” Palestinians each year. www.cbc.ca/news/world/i...

That’s a lot of words to say “I would struggle to trust somebody who isn’t a thief and a liar like me.”

St Paul is a hedgehog, Jesus is a fox.

I can’t really fully articulate this, but there’s something slightly off about describing the activity of writing theology as “research” I think.

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Come and become my new colleague: Two fully funded PhD positions (3yrs, start 9/2026) advertised at the Faculty of Theology (all disciplines) at #UniversityofCopenhagen, deadline: 16 March 2026 employment.ku.dk/phd?show=154...

Immediately fire profs who do this. There are so many people working their asses off to get academic jobs, there’s no excuse for this behaviour.

Gonna finally crack into this since Hell Sunday is tomorrow.

Making the very concept of social solidarity a partisan wedge issue is a surefire way to collapse society.

Remember how many people said worrying about Project 2025 was an “overreaction” and “trump derangement syndrome”?

The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2025 is gonna go.

Is it possible that Danielle Smith is being paid off by the Trump administration to commit treason against the federation?

Why is a certain kind of boomer/university admin so hell-bent on turning all higher ed into trade schools?

Maybe you need somewhere to meet God this Christmas.

Well, a week and a half in to my holidays and I finally finished the last work thing I absolutely HAVE to do before Christmas. Maybe I can relax now?

Thanks, I hate it.

I’ve either gotten much worse at texting or this last IOS update has seriously messed with autocorrect.

The only reason PP can get away with his nonsense about floor crossing is b/c too many Canadians have been totally Americanized in their understanding of how politics works & our parties have been happy to aid and abet a "presidentialized" approach to electioneering. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Instead of cutting youth and young adult ministry, what if the Anglican Church of Canada spent everything it had left investing in young people?

Just going to leave this here. open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...

Rod Dreher is like the real-life version of Lawrence Wentworth.

Good book. Not sure how anybody can keep persisting in genocide denial in the face of all the overwhelming evidence but here we are, 2 Christmases after Isaac preached this original sermon and Israeli violence rages on.

I dunno what was in the grape juice in my small rural Sunday school but by my last count, there have been 4 phd’s come out of that era. Not bad for a borderline fundamentalist church.

God-tier trolling.

It’s still such a thrill when I see a friend in a citation.

Sure it looks like Hoth outside but I dunno why everyone is freaking out about it.

Ok this is obviously like Bond-Villain level nonsense, BUT… If you had unlimited resources what one weird collection would you have?

Winnipeg School Division schools are closed today.

I thought Wittgenstein killed metaphysics in Europe. sites.google.com/view/euro-me...

Let’s be real, we have this discussion every month in my house but yes, also at Christmas.

Um, didn’t the UM famously just go through a massive schism?

Catherine Cullen: “So we’re not friends with the US now?” The Hon. Marjorie Michelle: “Not now.” podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...

I love how Facebook is like 30% posts demonstrating that our school system has completely failed in teaching people order of operations in mathematics.

So much the worse for GPT5

December's issue of the Rupert's Land News is all about the year we had with the Anglican Poetics Project. I've got an article outlining the year and the rest is handed over to poets old and new who engaged with us this year. rupertslandnews.ca/december-202...

What better Christmas present could you or your loved ones ask for than a semester long class with me?

The “Anglican Church of North America” (ACNA) - broke away from the Anglican Church of Canada and the Episcopal Church of the USA because they were horrified by the “sexual immorality” of churches that treated LGBTQ people as equals. Glad they got their sexual morals in order.

Thinking again about why we choose the interlocutors that we do. I recently read an interview with a favourite author of mine who said her criterion of citation was love. I like that a lot, and to be honest, I do a fair bit of it myself.

Most of you didn’t memorize most of Paul’s epistles in Bible Quizzing and it shows.

This would be better news if the UK Gov wasn't actively trying to suffocate UKHE to death with a pillow.

We had a good year at St John’s: youtu.be/2nq-MKrdeq0

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Yes but what if, and bear with me here, it’s not.

This volume comes out in January and will be essential for your university library. I’m also very pleased to have a chapter in it alongside so many incredible scholars. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/tt-clark-...

Subway Takes, but as a party game.